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From:
Walter Raleigh Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20–2] Nov [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 334
Summary:

Announces intention to hold a private conference with the Archbishop of Canterbury with the aim of encouraging men of science to reaffirm their religious beliefs and also to publish a series of articles in the Contemporary Review on the state of the various sciences.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell
Date:
20 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Kinnordy MS (private collection) (Sold at Sotheby’s (dealers), 9–10 July 2018, lot 375)
Summary:

Thanks for Life, letters and journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart. (K. M. Lyell ed. 1881), but he has already ordered a copy. Can he send the ordered copy to her to give to another, or can he send it on her behalf?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
20 Nov [1881]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 230)
Summary:

Magnificent supply of Euphorbiae arrived safely.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Nov 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 99
Summary:

Writes of Challis’ health

and of other matters of family interest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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